Pith Number

pith:5FXEO4V7

pith:2018:5FXEO4V7VCWTBTT5XLLYBHSMYE

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A Switch to the Concern of User: Importance Coefficient in Utility Distribution and Message Importance Measure

Pingyi Fan, Rui She, Shanyun Liu, Shuo Wan, Yunquan Dong

arxiv:1803.09467 v1 · 2018-03-26 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:11.489313Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e96e4772bfa8ad30ce7dbad7809e4cc117d8cf483afe8689c8e19e9140f3294c

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09467 · arxiv_version: 1803.09467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09467 · pith_short_12: 5FXEO4V7VCWT · pith_short_16: 5FXEO4V7VCWTBTT5 · pith_short_8: 5FXEO4V7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5FXEO4V7VCWTBTT5XLLYBHSMYE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e96e4772bfa8ad30ce7dbad7809e4cc117d8cf483afe8689c8e19e9140f3294c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-26T08:33:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf0cb5fd40816c0991d44a20eebe23bffc24b934e9ee544991087c6185e397aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}